Object Details
- Summit International Corporation
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case with twenty-one rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a constant key, two memory keys, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a % key, and a clear key. The on/off switch is on the left of the top row of the keyboard. A tag along the front edge reads: Summit. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display.
- The back of the calculator has a silver-colored tag on the battery compartment that reads in part: Summit Sm20. It also reads: MODEL SM20 (/) SERIAL NO. 26861 (/) Tm SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. The battery compartment would hold a nine-volt battery. Above the tag is a jack for a power supply.
- Compare 1986.0988.019.
- [Advertisement], Carol (Iowa) Daily Times Herald, September 10, 1975, p. 39. Summit SM20 advertised as on sale for $16.97, regular price $18.97. Calculator shown is not this model.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1974
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.281
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.281
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
- paper (stickers material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 11.43 cm
- place made
- United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1362248
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-79c3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
